| Article ID: | iaor19992493 |
| Country: | Netherlands |
| Volume: | 106 |
| Issue: | 1 |
| Start Page Number: | 204 |
| End Page Number: | 211 |
| Publication Date: | Apr 1998 |
| Journal: | European Journal of Operational Research |
| Authors: | Vermeulen Dries, Jansen Mathijs |
The goal of this paper is twofold. Firstly a short proof of the unicity of the reduced form of a normal form game is provided, using a technique to reduce a game originally introduced by Mertens. Secondly a direct combinatorial-geometric interpretation of the reduced form is described. This description is then used to derive an algorithm for the calculation of the reduced form of a game.